Quoting: AwesamLinuxI solved the issue with the background shader processing stalling at 0%, by uninstalling Steam and nuking the whole ".steam" folder the shadercache folder at where I have the Steam library. Then reinstalled Steam and the processing went without issues.

So the results are in, the TOP 10 games with the largest shader caches I currently have installed are:

261MB TEKKEN 7
204MB RESIDENT EVIL 2
198MB The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game
176MB Street Fighter V
141MB Prey
131MB Vampyr
129MB A Plague Tale: Innocence
106MB SOULCALIBUR VI
89MB Planet Coaster
83MB Redout: Enhanced Edition

Not surprising to see TEKKEN 7 up there as it was a stutter fest :P

1.9GB for native Borderlands 2 here. :O No wonder it took a while to process.

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxVery exciting stuff, this will really help out with many recent AAA games. If I update the GPU drivers does it need to process all the shaders again?

Seems so. But it isn't much of a problem when it happens in the background, and only takes up one core.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: tuubiJust a heads up: If you're using the kisak-mesa PPA on Ubuntu or a derivative, your update manager might complain that the PPA label has changed and refuse to update. This is because kisak has added an alternative kisak-mesa stable PPA [External Link] that is more conservative with updates to new major releases and the other one [External Link] is now labeled "kisak-mesa fresh". I fixed the problem by simply removing and readding the PPA.

A "manual"
 
sudo apt update
will ask you whether you want to change the label. Answer "y" and everything's fine, too.

That sounds like a simpler solution. :)

BTW, apt will ask for your password as needed these days. No need for sudo. At least it does on Mint.

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Just a heads up: If you're using the kisak-mesa PPA on Ubuntu or a derivative, your update manager might complain that the PPA label has changed and refuse to update. This is because kisak has added an alternative kisak-mesa stable PPA [External Link] that is more conservative with updates to new major releases and the other one [External Link] is now labeled "kisak-mesa fresh". I fixed the problem by simply removing and readding the PPA.

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Quoting: LungDrago

Quoting: tuubiI always thought the 'legit' way was to suck it up and wait for the next sale.

So, you're saying my best option is to spend hours wishlisting hundreds of games across various stores and spam my email account with a bunch of games I might or might not want to buy at some point?

And you're saying we should all be entitled to sale prices after a sale has ended, even if that means purchasing from a random dude on a shady key reselling site like G2A?

I wishlist games I actually do want to buy, and if I miss a sale, I wait a few weeks or months for another one. There's always something else to buy or play anyway.

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Quoting: LungDragoSo uh, excuse me for my ignorance, but what would be the 'legit' key reselling service? G2A saved my neck so to speak several times before when I missed a sale by a week or something and I figured most keys sold there come from shrewd people who buy a bunch of them on such sales.

I always thought the 'legit' way was to suck it up and wait for the next sale.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: tuubiI only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.

I think you can find solutions in the Linux release thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283880/discussions/0/343787283753197906/?ctp=1 [External Link]

Thanks. I'll give it a read.

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To my eye, the game's got plenty of style.

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I only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.

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Not the first comedy noir adventure game to come out in the last few years, but this one does feature more licking than most. I'm a sucker for the genre so onto the endless wishlist it goes.

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